Leachate

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Leachate: - Water that collects contaminants as it trickles through wastes, pesticides or fertilizers. Leaching may occur in farming areas, feedlots, and landfills, and may result in hazardous substances entering surface water, ground water, or soil.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Leachate::

Tullytown fights to keep radioactive waste out of landfill  -  04 Aug 2008
The Trentonian,There's so much ammonia in the leachate, Waste Management is able to siphon that off in commercial amounts. Until only recent times, when the Morrisville

SRA aims for leading gallium supply role  -  Aug 1, 2008
Compound Semiconductor,SRA has already signed deals to sell its so-called "leachate", a residue produced by the zinc smelting process that is rich in germanium and gallium,

SRA Announces Robust Scoping Study on Germanium and Gallium  -  Jul 22, 2008
FOXBusinessThe study is based on a projected plant feed of 13000 dmt pa of leachate with a process recovery of 84% Ge and 82% Ga. At selling prices of US $1000/kg Ge

Government to manage landfills to arrest pollution  -  Jul 26, 2008
Malaysia Star,SUNGKAI: The Government will take over management of the country’s 260 landfills in a move to reduce river pollution by leachate from the dumpsites.

Leachate could be used to put out tip fire  -  Jul 19, 2008
Guernsey Press and Star,Now Public Services is considering seeking an increase in the leachate level as a way of putting it out. (Picture by Brian Green, 0592142) PUBLIC Services

State reduces landfill fine by $2750  -  Jul 29, 2008
Cherokee Scout,31 for failing to contain leachate. The state wrote that Cherokee County “failed to properly treat [leachate] prior to discharge at the Cherokee County

Landfill open house Aug. 8  -  Jul 30, 2008
MyWebTimes.com,The rotten egg smell was identified as hydrogen sulfide gas generated from the landfill's leachate, the liquid drained off the refuse being dumped.

Landfill cleanup in homestretch  -  Jul 24, 2008
Roanoke Times,Thousands of gallons of leachate flow through Kim-Stan daily, and a drainage system is being installed to help remove it. SELMA -- The rising stretch of

A river runs through him  -  Jul 30, 2008
Hackensack Chronicle,..."The 800 or so acres of landfill that were scheduled to be capped by EnCap are bleeding leachate into the river on a daily basis. (Leachate is a combination

SRA reports scoping study on proposed germanium and gallium ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
Semiconductor Today,The study is based on a projected plant feed of 13000 dmt (dry metric tons) per annum of leachate with a process recovery of 84% Ge and 82% Ga.

Heads together  -  Jul 24, 2008
The Morning Sun,By Chris Tredway BELLAIRE - Organizing lines of communication between those concerned with the cleanup of Bay Harbor's cement kiln dust leachate,

Police keep landfill adversaries well apart  -  Jul 26, 2008
Guadalajara Reporter,Leachate is the liquid that drains or “leaches� from a landfill and is caused principally by precipitation percolating through waste.

Landfill gas could power county  -  Jul 27, 2008
Mankato Free Press,To stimulate methane production, the landfill may change how it deals with leachate, the toxic rainwater that percolates through the garbage.

Wolumla tip is quite OK, according to council  -  Jul 24, 2008
Bega District News,One of the biggest concerns raised at a public meeting held last week in Wolumla, was that of leachate contamination of the Bega River catchment.

Critics of Martin County deep injection well call it a 'terrible idea'  -  Jul 19, 2008
TCPalm,Joe Florio, a Jensen Beach homeowner who gets his drinking water from a well, said he is particularly concerned the leachate from the closed Palm City

Waste firm fined £40000  -  Jul 11, 2008
Swindon Advertiser,Pollution controls said that the company had to carefully control the amount of chemical leachate which built up at the site and devise a plan to cope with

Waste company receives hefty fine  -  Jul 10, 2008
Materials Handling World Magazine,...for breaching leachate levels at Wiltshire landfill site. A landfill waste company has been ordered to pay £47800 in fines and costs for failing to control

Solid waste dumped by LMC may contaminate Gomti river, groundwater  -  Jul 24, 2008
Lucknow Newsline,The Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has cautioned that the river water could be contaminated by leachate — a

City dump plan moving forward  -  Jul 15, 2008
The Barrie Examiner,..."Any leachate generated gets into the ground-water system," said Craig Hebert, the city's operations director. "It will continue to if we don't do anything

Final closure work gets underway at County Landfill  -  Jul 17, 2008
Clarion News,Hall said work is ongoing to bring CLI’s leachate treatment system up to par. “The plan is for the leachate pumps (in the landfill) and the treatment plant

SRA plans pilot germanium-gallium plant  -  Jul 22, 2008
The Northern Miner (subscription),Processing germanium and gallium from zinc leachate could earn Strategic Resources Acquisition Corp. (SRA) (SRZ-T) a bonus operating profit of US$25 million

Riverkeeper plans to sue Lehigh Cement over dumping  -  Jul 11, 2008
Kingston Daily Freeman,Riverkeeper said its frequent Hudson River patrols by boat and helicopter revealed evidence of illegal dumping of landfill leachate by Lehigh into wetlands

Waste Disposal Concerns in South Frontenac  -  Jul 18, 2008
Frontenac News,In Loughborough, groundwater quality at the site’s eastern property boundary was "potentially impacted by landfill leachate to a degree unacceptable to the

Landfill makes adjustments, passes site inspection  -  Jul 18, 2008
Ledger Independent,According to DeVoe, in early June, the problem concerned leachate outbreaks due to excessive rain on the landfill. A follow-up inspection was held on June

Riverkeeper serves notice of intent to sue Lehigh Cement Company  -  Jul 10, 2008
Mid-Hudson News,Riverkeeper said its frequent Hudson River patrols by boat and helicopter revealed evidence of the illegal dumping of landfill leachate into wetlands and

News In Brief  -  Jul 21, 2008
letsrecycle.com,Leachate is a potentially polluting liquid which accumulates during filling and is the liquid material which develops from decomposing waste.

Mason County Landfill still under state DWM notice  -  Jul 11, 2008
Ledger Independent,According to Maysville-Mason County Landfill Director Robert DeVoe in early June, the problem concerned leachate outbreaks on the landfill as a result of

Superfund work near national forest in final stage  -  Jul 25, 2008
WDBJ7.com,Contractors hired by the US Environmental Protection Agency are upgrading the Kim-Stan Landfill's groundwater drainage system to remove leachate.

Worried residents dump all over Ruby Rd. proposal  -  Jul 23, 2008
Canoe.ca,...concern their properties could be vulnerable to contamination since the proposal doesn't include liner or leachate treatment at the Ruby Rd. dump.

Harford landfill neighbors don’t trust report  -  Jul 21, 2008
Examiner.comBut some of the same neighbors say the study didn’t go far enough, because it claims the county is adequately addressing problems with leachate — water and

SRA to build pilot germanium, gallium recovery plant  -  Jul 23, 2008
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,Toronto-based Strategic Resource Acquisition (SRA) plans to complete a pilot plant early next year to recover germanium and gallium from the zinc leachate

Dumps clean-up to cost millions  -  Jul 20, 2008
Irish Independent,And many landfills contain leachate, or water contaminated with decomposing rubbish, and methane gas which can ignite. "There was indiscriminate illegal

DEP: Contaminated runoff not polluting Bucks wells  -  Jul 18, 2008
Allentown Morning Call,The tests were ordered when state regulators discovered elevated levels of ammonia, iron, suspended solids and organic material in liquid called leachate

Fish & Game resumes lawsuit over Lancaster rifle range  -  Jul 17, 2008
Clinton Times & Courier,The Brandli parcel and the leachate problem are two different issues. The testing Brown & Caldwell [Engineering Co.] did is for leachate; it’s not for the

Capping to start at Stark landfill  -  Jul 11, 2008
Akron Beacon Journal,The US EPA strongly suspects that the landfill's liner, its gas-extraction wells or its leachate collection system has been compromised by underground fires

SEMCO problems to be 'water under the bridge'  -  Jul 16, 2008
Fairfield Daily Ledger,Just before spring, Griffin was faced with a decision of whether to drain a lagoon containing leachate, the water that passes through the solid waste and is

BYRNES MILL: Storm water mandate weighs on city officials  -  Jul 9, 2008
Tri County Journal,..."We are doing a leachate service," he explained. "Leachate is runoff from landfills and we'll treat it at our sewer plant. The people involved can't let it

MPCA penalizes Northshore for landfill violations  -  Jul 11, 2008
Lake County News Chronicle,Northshore Mining Co. recently paid a $37287 civil penalty for four alleged landfill leachate discharge violations and is in the process of amending its

Safety, environmental problems found at Harford County landfill  -  Jul 17, 2008
Examiner.comHowever, the report did not find anything to substantiate residents’ complaints that leachate — which they’ve dubbed “garbage juice� — had been escaping the

Tire fire plea deal reached  -  Jul 16, 2008
Charleston Gazette,Matthew J. Warnock, who represented Handley in the federal case, argued that not much damage was done because the leachate was not much different than

Second cell at Mountainview Landfill could include compost site ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
Cumberland Times-News,The facility also could build a leachate sewer extension line from the landfill to the new George's Creek Wastewater Treatment Plan. Leachate, the liquid

Domtar gets MOE go-ahead;  -  Jul 12, 2008
Standard Freeholder,The company must undertake annual groundwater and leachate testing and biannual surface water testing at Big Ben. * Domtar must provide financial assurance

Solid waste management: Potentials, challenges  -  Jul 28, 2008
The New Nation,The discharge of leachate contaminates the water bodies dangerous for fish and aquatic lives by reducing the amount of oxygen in water.

Officials must do more  -  Jul 19, 2008
Belleville Intelligencer,To the east of the Bakelite property sits the Napanee dump, which has been producing leachate for years but the Oceans and Fisheries department and the

NEWs in Northeastern Wisconsin  -  Jul 19, 2008
Green Bay Press Gazette,The day ends with a field demonstration irrigating leachate from the farm's anaerobic digester on recently harvested sod. For registration information

Flushable diapers for a cleaner environment;  -  Jul 16, 2008
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin,This is problematic, because that means that millions of tons of potentially virus infecte diapers end up in dump sites, and should the leachate control

Workshop focuses on use of natural mycorrhizae  -  Jul 30, 2008
American Farm,All three of those inputs cost money and the leachate costs money as well when it must be treated. And, of course, a higher water application means a

Neglected landfill a growing concern  -  Jul 26, 2008
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,The “garbage juice,� or leachate, would be collected and disposed of in a special pool enclosed by a fence. The bales would be stacked inside several lined

Restoration of wetlands important  -  Jul 31, 2008
Gisborne Herald,Lagoon) then nature would have continued to provide a natural solution to leachate runoff that would also have accorded with Maori cultural requirements

Protecting the earth from ourselves  -  Jul 31, 2008
The National,...“With a landfill, you line it and contain the rubbish and you have a proper drainage system so any leachate that is formed cannot seep out,� Mr Esan said.




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